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Re: Email programs that work.



On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:49:32PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Derek Martin wrote:
> > Any reasonably intelligent person could surmise that what he meant was
> > according to a reasonably flexible set of rules that the user could
> > define.  It does not do that.

> Sure it does.  It is  a reasonably flexible set of rules.  It just
> isn't a highly flexible set of rules.  Furthermore the user can
> define what those rules do.

No... the rules are static, and there are exactly two of them.  The
user can only change the limits of the rules, not the rules
themselves.

This is not flexible by any sane definition of flexible.  You're being
an ass.  Intentionally, I might add.

>     Sorry, but where does "a reasonable set" begin short of, say, Python?

Take a look at what Mutt can do, if you must know.  It does not have
Python, or any other scripting language embedded in it.


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Derek D. Martin
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